Such as Emscripten or Android. The hypothetical use case is converting
shader files directly on an Android device to debug things, or having a
Node.js build of a scene/image converter for "portability".
Static plugins can be linked to these if Magnum is built together with
Magnum Plugins in a CMake superproject and the plugins are then linked
via the MAGNUM_*CONVERTER_STATIC_PLUGINS CMake variable.
The fontconverter and distanceconverter tools cause a CMake error on
Emscripten as it's not currently possible to access the GPU through a
command-line Node.js app. On Android they work though.
For some reason, it was adding also the magnum / magnum-d directory,
which isn't really useful, especially in cases where the directory is
not at all or it's desired to pick a debug plugin from a release
executable and vice versa.
Also the distancefieldconverter was still attempting to join with an
absolute path -- somehow 7fb63a9434 missed
this one.
I really need to write regression tests for all this, sigh.
These two options were mutually exclusive, and both were doing the same
thing -- switching to EGL on desktop GL, or switching away from EGL on
GLES. That made all logic vastly more complicated than it should be, and
unfortunately it took me half a decade to realize that. The new logic is
significantly simpler everywhere.
As usual, the old options are still recognized by CMake on a deprecated
build (with a warning), and are still exposed both as CMake variables
and a preprocessor define. But the logic for them was quite complicated,
so I don't guarantee all cases are covered.
I also tried to clean up the dependent CMake options to allow building
GLX and WGL apps on GLES independently of whether EGL is used, but it's
quite a mess due to the limitations of CMake < 3.22. Build directories
that have the options switched randomly over a long time might start
misbehaving, but the initial build should work well.
The whole class was a bad idea, why create something that's 99% similar
to another application and has just one platform-specific workaround? Of
course it resulted in this code being completely untested and not even
built anywhere, because it served a tiny insignificant use case.
To avoid losing all the code, I did my best in attempting to merge this
into the WindowlessEglApplication. But since, again, EGL isn't
really used on any Windows platform, I can't even say it builds
properly. Maybe not even the original code built.
Similar to the change done in Corrade, see the commit for details:
878624ac36
Wow, this is probably the most backwards-compatibility code I've ever
written. Can't wait until I can drop all that.
The boring dry usage info grew significantly, and listing it as the
first thing on the page would scare people off. Put the examples first
instead, and for the imageconverter and sceneconverter add --info
listing examples, as that's what is eye-catchy.
Probably a leftover from when these dependencies were handled in a
much shittier way? For as long as I remember, enabling WITH_GL_INFO
always enabled WITH_GL and WITH_WINDOWLESSWHATEVERAPPLICATION
implicitly.
Disabling engine startup log or modifying enabled extensions /
workarounds from the application side was one of the common pain
points and this should *finally* solve the problem. This Configuration
is now inherited by the usual Platform::*Application::GLConfiguration /
Platform::Windowless*Application::Configuration classes people are used
to, so for the end user it's just as if these classes got a bunch new
options.
Having this, I also extended the ContextGLTest to verify that the
Configuration and command-line options do what's expected because that
hadn't automated tests until now. The test is mostly a copy of what I
did for Vulkan already, nothing special. Additionally all
Platform*ApplicationTest executables gained a new --quiet option to
verify that the GL::Context::Configuration subset gets correctly passed
from the Application code, because that's something we can't really
verify in an automated way.
In particular it is now possible to override the MAGNUM_PLUGINS_DIR
variables and even specify them relative, which will make them relative
to executable location.
It's nice when everything clicks together :)
Each Windowless*Application has now a companion Windowless*Context that
manages just the GL context creation and nothing else, with the ability
to just create the context and not make it current, so it doesn't affect
current thread state and can be moved to another thread and make current
there.
Other things that were done:
* Using `NoCreateT` instead of `nullptr` for creating the application
without creating GL context.
* Properly handling failed creation of Magnum context instance -- if it
errors out, also the GL context is destroyed to make it possible to
create the context with a different configuration.
* Reworked AMD and NVidia binary driver workaround, where core context
created with specific version doesn't automatically choose the newest
available (creating compatibility context on the other hand causes
the version to get stuck on 2.1 on Mesa and OSX).
* Added the above workaround also for WindowlessWglApplication to avoid
driver issues in the future.
* Reworked WindowlessWglApplication to not be so crazily entangled. It
was a misunderstanding on my side about how WINAPI works. Much
simpler now (and I hope still working :D).
Toggles between using CGL/GLX/WGL (requiring running graphical desktop
environment) or EGL (without display attachment) for command-line
utilities and GL tests. Also exposed to the user through
MAGNUM_TARGET_HEADLESS CMake and preprocessor variables.
Vladimír Vondruš